is never fun. especially when it goes on and on and on for almost two entire weeks. i know there are people out there who are ok with being suck for the pure fact that they enjoy being babied... that is not me. last week i think i caught something that was being passed around at work and well, my stomach was hating me for quite a while. people, if you are going to be sick, keep it to yourself. i know sometimes we can't help it but for goodness sake, try! i burned the inside of my mouth and eating has been a painful process for a number of days now. there have been a number of just ugh things for too many days now but i am starting to feel a bit better which is just terrific. AND, my neck, after two terrible days of terrible stiffness, is better.
i am almost certain i did that last night. i woke up this morning and felt a little funny. as soon as i sat in my car it hit me...it being pain. this sharp stab ran from the tip of my head all the way down my back but the epicenter was my neck. oh how i hate sleeping wrong. it does not happen often but when it happens it is the most terrible thing a person can experience...ok, not the most but close.
work went well today. i have improved at steaming milk and honestly, it felt so terrific. i am not good at it by any means but just to not have milk all over the place felt so terrific! my boss erika, she is a really terrific gal, and she work with me until i finally some what got what was going on:)
i lost my favorite sweater a few weeks ago and honestly i was quite devastated. i know that makes me sound materialistic but that is not it. i just really liked this one sweater and one day it was there and the next day it was gone. the bowling ally in long beach ate it up:/ anywho, heidi, being the lovely lady she is, replaced it! yes people, believe it or not, there are some really nice people in this world and somehow i am fortunate enough to know quite a few, heidi being one of them:)
tomorrow i have to take my stupid car back to the shop. i was in an accident earlier this year, scared me pretty good, and they were supposed to fix my frame which was causing a problem with my alignment but i guess that never happened because my alignment in still really crummy and it is eating up my breaks:/ sometimes i feel like people do not take their work too seriously and that bums me out.
tomorrow i get to sleep in and hopefully when i wake, my stiff neck will be better and my car crankiness will be gone:)
noapte buna my friends:)
do you every just wake up and think: "jeez, i can't believe that happened..."? me too. like this morning. just in case you were not aware, i am working at this little place in redlands called augies. when i was in school that was the place i loved to read and write papers. those days are over now, i spend my time on the other side of the counter these days:) i started learning the process of steaming milk at work. it looks something like the photo to the left:
option. because cars cost so much money to fix! my outside lock fell into the door on saturday. today i took it to the shop. it cost way too much to fish it out.
on monday night i went on a bike ride. yes it was such a neat experience, but no i will never do that kind of ride on big red again. he is just too heavy for such things. and his heaviness overwhelms me so until i get a new ride built for that type of occasion, count me out.
i have this shirt and i was not able to wear it for the longest time because it had these big ugly diamonds on it...who does that? but the shirt is great so i decided to operate:) i forced the diamonds out and in their places i put two lovely buttons...the shirt is very wearable now:)
naps, i love them. wednesday late afternoon i was preparing for a nap, music and all, and just as i was entering the deep sleep my phone woke me. my nap was cut a little short by a visit out to corona but it was def. worth my while. i heard a really great message about the universe and how great it is and how little we are and how there is a huge Creator out there and so near at the same time who can deal with our little and big issues.
yesterday i woke up at 5:30 to open at augie's. i love that place. anywho, i arrived a tad early so i sat on the sidewalk and started to read and it was soo nice. later on in the day i was talking to someone about michigan and farms and ranches and somehow we got to talking about the cold. she told me that somewhere in canada when you spit, it ices up before it hits the ground! so this winter i want to go to canada, and yes, for the pure purpose of watching my spit ice up before it hits the ground.
yesterday, someone told me that getting an ma in 20th century european history was a bit nerdy and i just smiled. first because this guy and his wife are two of the neatest people and second because i KNOW that is not true:) european history has defined a lot in regard to who we are as humans and why we are not good. if you didn't realize it before just read up a little on this time and you will know. i am not saying we are wholly evil and hopeless. i am just saying that we are not entirely good either...too many people think this. if we are capable of hurting other people, not only physically but emotionally, if we are capable of lying, if we are capable of being mean, how can we be basically good?...we can't. but i am glad there is still hope for us:)
late yesterday afternoon, i finally got my nap. and this morning, i rolled out of bed at 9:15.
happy hours ahead:)
so, it hit me today, like every other day that there is a better option for transportation than cars. no it may not be convenient but the cost is a great deal less when it comes to repairs. so you may be asking yourself, "what is this better option?" well, bicycles. i know, i know madness but it has to be true. well at least if you live in a place where you are permitted to use such a form of transportation.
and what makes me say such a thing. today's events. later this afternoon, i set aside some time to get a few car issues addressed. specifically the brakes. they have been driving me absolutely wild. so who better to fix the problem than my little brother joe who knows a little bit about everything, cars included:) so he told me what to purchase and i went on my way. i went to the auto shop, not my favorite place, and went up to the front counter to ask them for the things i needed. the man behind the counter was not very nice...at all. i was almost hurt by his lack of customer service but i went on. when he told me the cost, i think my mouth dropped to the floor in surprise. i don't know very much about cars and such, but i had a feeling something was not right about that so i phoned the little brother to get his thoughts on the matter...he was not happy. he said the cost was absurd and i agreed so he sent me to another place just up the street.
this other place, the atmosphere was much different. i was treated so nicely and the man behind the counter was so helpful. AND i bought brake pads with a life time warranty, some brake icing-it looked like cake icing:), five bottles of oil and a filter for less than what i would have paid for one brake pad at the other place.
cars are complicated and expensive but here, they are "necessary" i suppose:)
the brakes are better now but how much cheaper it would be if i could just ride around all day...
flat bicycle tires are cheaper to fix:)
or have usable public transportation. when will the metro run through yucaipa or at least redlands. they have a station there just waiting to be used:)
hmmm...all this to say, i am not much of a car person:)
ps...don't misread this as me being ungrateful. i was very grateful to find a good deal on car things and to get my car in working condition and to actually have a car and so on...
and so it is:)
i like it a great deal. if you must, now would be the appropriate time for a chuckle:) we are all different, i think that is why i like us so much... because not one person is exactly like another. we look different, smell different, and we like different things. and i like paper. i love different kinds. i like to tear the corners of all my sheets because that allows me to see how long or how short the fibers are... that makes a difference between a strong piece and a weak one:)
this will probably be a bit long... you don't have to read the whole thing if you don't want to:) anywho, today we went to a funeral. it was a funeral for a woman whom my family has known for 20 years... that is most of my life. she was a beautiful woman who loved the Lord with everything in her and that is something i can remember about her from when i was a little girl. we loved her a great deal. she lost her battle to cancer but she won the bigger battle because last sunday evening, she entered into eternity with the Father whom she loved so passionately during her time here. she never really called me by my name, she preferred "luminita," because that was the name of her favorite niece and she said i reminded her of her niece from the time we met. she is in a better place.
who watches movies on a friday morning? i guess i do:) woke up this morning and for the first time in a reeally long time, i had nothing to do. so, since i rented two movies last night i decided to watch the one i didn't watch last night this morning...yikes, that last sentence was really something, eh? anywho, definitely, maybe was the movie, and i must have really been in the mood for a girl movie because i really thought it was a neat one:) i mean, it is a little man oh man, the way the story goes, but the end was just right.